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This time, it's inspired by synchronet, by inspired I don't mean I plan on making a synchronet clone, but mostly using javascript for a lot of the features like synchronet does.
I'm using duktape for the JS engine, and the BBS is written in C++ (I just couldn't make rust or swift do what I wanted, I'm probably too old or dumb or something, but those languages feel like trying to program while wrapped in bubble wrap and everything you want to do is too dangerous)
Not sure if you recall, but I've had an interest in the 80's/90's information service "Viatel" (based on viewdata/videotex), and I wrote a Synchronet shell to emulate that environment - both with Mode 7 graphics and ANSI.
I feel like you and Vela025 might have a lot to talk about. He was running a BBS on a BBC Master which used Mode 7 out of the box (though he added 40 and 80 col modes to it) - for various reasons mostly to do with not wanting to leave an unsupervised 40 year old computer on 24/7 he has just moved the BBS to Synchronet and is busily adapting various parts of it to do Mode 7.
Not sure if you recall, but I've had an interest in the 80's/90's information service "Viatel" (based on viewdata/videotex), and I wrote a Synchronet shell to emulate that environment - both with Mode 7 graphics and ANSI.
If/when you make this available, I'll certainly have a play and see how I might port my shell to it (if that is something that can be done), and to see if I can do more than what I've already done so far...
What I've done is (I think anyway) a little different, in that I'm using Sync as the engine to a Viewdata experience - so Im not translating any sync output to viewdata/mode 7 (and thus everything available via an ANSI experience is also available via a petsci experience - and with Vela025's work a mode 7 experience), I've recreated a prestel like experience.
Not sure if you recall, but I've had an interest in the 80's/90's information service "Viatel" (based on viewdata/videotex), and I wrote a Synchronet shell to emulate that environment - both with Mode 7 graphics and ANSI.
Yes, I do remember that! Do you still have it up?
I'm not aiming for synchronet javascript compatibility, so porting would likely be very difficult / impossible. I'm just adding functions as I need them.
Oh, wow - you really went deep with it. I never really took a close look at Viewdata, I have a client on my Mac but it's not the smoothest experience - for example I can't resize or maximise the window. I also prefer BBSing off my Acorn, so as a result I barely bother with Viewdata. It sounds like there are a lot of mechanisms inside it that I wasn't aware of.
It's working so far, I have FTN support (but no networks set up yet) private email, doors and today i added security levels and time limits. (Yay)
I've been playing around a bit since getting back into BBSing (again). I've done some more work on Talisman, which Lawrence is now the
maintainer of. I wanted to try something fresh, so started over (again).
This time, it's inspired by synchronet, by inspired I don't mean I plan
on making a synchronet clone, but mostly using javascript for a lot of
the features like synchronet does.
Assuming it's still working (and I haven't broken sign up) you can have
a look here: starlight.zapto.org:2023 (note, it's telnet only and on
port 2023, port 2323 is talisman)
I tried tonight but no dice - but I'll be watching, as I have your many other awesome gifts to the BBS w0rld.